Pit-Jr Posted November 5, 2005 Posted November 5, 2005 Im looking into getting a laptop, as i expend too much energy sitting upright. Im not planning to run games on it, it will be used basically for browsing, email, messenger, music and video, and recording drum and guitar tracks. Can anyone recommend a decent one that wont cost an arm and a leg and have any of yours caused you any glaring problems
Ten10 Posted November 5, 2005 Posted November 5, 2005 its best if you get a laptop with probably 1.4-1.6GHZ CPU. You might want a large hard drive but for what you want it to do, don't bother looking for a power house of a pc. I suppose for video purposes a 15.4 inch screen would be nice. A few website with ok laptops are: Laptop shop Shop acer Student laptops They are all quite good places to look since you don't want the laptop to do too much
Calza Posted November 5, 2005 Posted November 5, 2005 Dell are offering double memory with one starting at £503 inc. VAT though theres probably more deals out there and theres also eBay...
Blackfox Posted November 6, 2005 Posted November 6, 2005 Id advise you to get a 64 bit processor. Acer are good.
Guest Offerman Posted November 6, 2005 Posted November 6, 2005 Yea, Acer, with a 64-Bit Processor should do you nicely. If your not doing any gaming, which I wouldnt really recommend on a laptop anyway don't go mad with the memory. But the chances are you will be offered with either 512Mbs or 1Gb. I'd definitly go for 1Gb because it was decided along time ago that XP really does run better with 1Gb of RAM. Heck, it can run with 128Mbs - but don't expect it to do much else other then just sit there looking pretty. It never hurts to check out http://www.ebuyer.com because they do some very good prices on a broad range of 'tops.
AshMat Posted November 6, 2005 Posted November 6, 2005 I wouldn't recommend dell, if you cant find something then their technical support is in india and it's bloody hopeless
dukkadukka Posted November 6, 2005 Posted November 6, 2005 http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore.woa/90101/wo/dP48XFcSEIO227IQoLZXMem8HTk/0.SLID?nclm=iBook&mco=3A04605C i can't recommend apple enough, my imac has given me no problems at all since i got it and it suits my needs perfectly, and yours sound similar. the only warning i was going to give is that it's not great for playing games, but as you've already specified that you're not interested in gaming on your laptop then an ibook, or if you're rich a powerbook, would be ideal
CompSci Posted November 7, 2005 Posted November 7, 2005 i brought this one http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=94300 it very cool for the price, all it needs is another 256/512 ram which cost atleast £25 - £45 it has a Intel Pentium M Processor (1.6ghz, 400Mhz FSB, 2mb L2 Cache) 15.0" XGA TFT LCD 60GB HDD DVDRW-Dual 256mb DDR2 (support dual channel) 802.11b/g wireless LAN. win xp home (no cd supplied but has a internal recover partition) asweome for £546
Kurtle Squad Posted November 7, 2005 Posted November 7, 2005 Dell....Dell...Dell.....You know you want 1
christophicus Posted November 7, 2005 Posted November 7, 2005 Sorry to rob your thread for a bit but a friend is looking for a gaming laptop and i recommended the dell xps,that would be the best wouldnt it?
Ten10 Posted November 7, 2005 Posted November 7, 2005 the best gaming laptops are alienware ones, but you'd have to be willing to waste alot of money for one of those.
Raining_again Posted November 7, 2005 Posted November 7, 2005 the best gaming laptops are alienware ones, but you'd have to be willing to waste alot of money for one of those. Alienware. yeah. that definately sprang to mind for me, and also Rock computers superb gaming laptops. I think you are going to spend a lot in general for a "gaming laptop", 'specially for really up-to-date, graphics eating games. Better to buy (even better - build) a desktop PC if possible. More "bang for your buck" as they say. edit: Alienware: http://www.alienware.com/ rock computers: http://www.rockdirect.com/
Ten10 Posted November 8, 2005 Posted November 8, 2005 Yes Rock are another classically top of the range laptops. I think I prefer the design of the alienware ones though.
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